The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SENATOR INGALLS, preserves the first fee he
ever received as a lawyer, namely. table and "a
high desk, made by carpenter client
A VERY precious manuscript, written
parchment by the monks of Mount Athos in the
ninth century, has been destroyed by mice.
THE Right Rev. Albert Lee, Bishop Of Della.
ware, is dangerously i'll at Wilmington. Bishop
Lee is the senior bishop of the Protestant Epis
copal Church of America, and has been engaged
in clerical duties for nearly half century.
THE Queen-reeent of Spain sees her son, the
baby King, only once day. Royal etiquette
must be rather icy affair when it can so
freeze maternal love that mother will remain
twenty three hours without seeing her child
BERLIN Special: Experiments with an explo-
sive invented by Lieutenant Graydon, late of the
United States navy. being made at the
Fortress of Spandau, near this city, under the
supervision of German officers, with alleged
good success
WHILE coroners jury was sitting on a sup
posed corpse at Streator, Mich, the other day,
the dead" man slowly, rubbed his eyes,
and Informed the jury that he had neuralgia of
the heart and having walked considerable dis
lance. was exhausted.
AFTER engaging in q lawsuit with the family
of her first husband and recovering $50, 900 of
her own money which that family had grabbed,
Madame Nilsson, just before her second mar
rage, gives back all of that to the sister of
the Marquis Rouzeaud.
ALFALFA has been raised in New Jersey with
success. Last year G. w. Thompson, in Stelton,
near New Brunswick, cut &c, 800 pounds of the
grass in two cutt:ngs-June and September
from twenty pounds of seed. The drought in
terfered with the third crop.
THE bronze monument to the memory Of Cor
don, designed by Mr.. Boehm for the King of the
Belgians, who will place it in Westminster Alb
| hey, mas been finished. 1t consists of a statue
| of the ilustrious hero. wrapped in his military
| cloak, recumbent on a sarcophagus.
| AMONG Queen Victoria's jubilee gifts will be
| magnificent dinner service of bright yellow
Dresden ware. from the German Emperor It
| will be profusey ornamented with medallion
| pictures of notable events and portraits of
! famous persons OF her reign. 1t will contain in
| all 480 pieces.
| ANOTHER of the well-known beauties of the
| London social world is about to forsake the
| drawing room-though not for the stage-Mrs
| Wheeler, we'll known the contemporary of
the Jersey Lily, both in beauty and popularity.
being about to enter dress makers establish
| ment as one of the working partners.
| PLAINvIEw (Nlinn.) News: Here is scientific
nut which John Ross ruthlessly hurls in the
| teeth of natural phenomena delineators: s'Why
| is it that along railroads and the highways the
snow always drifts from the high places and
| into the depressions while in lumber yards it
drifts out of the depressions and accumuiates
| upon top of lumber piles2
| ONE of the curiosities of Cayuga county. New
| York, is a hotel built directly upon the dividing
| line between two townships. It has been the
| custom for many years for the management to
| shift his bar from one end of the house to the
other just according to the way the town went
| on the excise question, and in that way he has
| managed to obtain license, either in one town
| or the other, most of the time
THE editor of prominent paper in large
Western city recently received a letter from a
young graduate of an Eastern college asking
| for position. He began his letter as follows:
| "You may be surprised that I should be willing
to leave civilization and go out West" The
| editor replied that he wasn't bit ''surprsed;n
! the number of fools getting to be so great
| in the East that they naturally thought of
| emigratng to some place where there were not
| SO many.
/ BISHOP ALEXANDER w. WAYMAN the great
leader of the coiored Methodists, asked the other
day why the colored people of the South in
creased so much more rapidly than the white
answered: Eve draw from three sources, while
| the white people only draw from one-every col
| ored woman whose husband is white the chill
| dren are set down on our side every white WON
an whose husband is colored. which condition
| on our side: every offspring of pur~ fricar
| blood, of course, is set down on our ST while
the white people only draw from on lrce
| themselves"
| AT dinner in Albany the other day. tn,
Hon. Andrew S. Draper told this story of Lin
coin: immediately after the battle of Gettys
burg Lincoln sat down and wrote peremptory
order to General Meade to intercept Lee in hi
retreat, give him battle, and by this bold stroke
crush the rebel army, and end the Rebellion
| The order was accompanied by friendly note
in which the great patriot said to Meade The
order ! inclose is not of record. If you sue
:. coed you need not publish the order If yor
fail, publish it. Then if you succeed you will
have all the credit of the movement. If not
III take the responsibility
HERR SCHILLER a well known German archi
tect. reports some facts which are of interest al
indicating the radius of the circle Of protection
of good lightning rods On June II last, at tn,
village of Mottingen, lightning struck pea
tree 80 feet high On one side lis feet away
was shool-house, with rod IS feet high. On
the other side was church, 1928 feet away, ant
having lightning rod reaching up l54 feet
Both rods well placed and had worked wei
when tested, and the level of tho foot of the tre
| is about the same that of the two buildings
1t is evident, then, if the facts have been &C
curately reported, that the radius OF the circ
of protection is not more than twice the heigh
, of the rod
One of the latest of the the Pail Mali Ga
zette's prize competitions calls for candidate
ier paradise purgatory and hell. The popula
vote put Gordon at the head Of the first list
Shaftesbury third, Florence Nightingale fourth
the Queen fifth. and the latc Lord Iddesleig
sixth. Cardinal Newman and Lord Beaconshel
were, respectively, twelfth and thirteenth. Lor